On Thursday 11 January 2007 20:32, Rod.. Whitworth wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:57:44 +0100, Rico Secada wrote:
> >On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:47:38 -0800
> >
> >"Greg Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> On 1/10/07, Francisco Valladolid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > I have 202 days using OpenBSD 3.6 as  router/firewall/ PPPOE.
> >> >
> >> > I want to share this screenshot.
> >> >
> >> > http://farm1.static.flickr.com/147/353353577_e8e875083d_o.jpg
> >>
> >> Wow, I am impressed, your dick is waaaay bigger than mine because I
> >> have become a eunuch for the kingdom of heaven's sake.  (Matthew
> >> 19:12)  My uptime is permanently stuck at zero now.
> >>
> >> Greg
> >
> >We all know that a "long" uptime means neglect, but that doesn't mean we
> > should reply in a dumb way like that!
> >
> >Why the hell do you always feel you have to make people wanna go away!?
>
> Actually the thing you seem to have missed is that the OP's boot time
> was when the version used was already out of support.
>
> 3.6 became unsupported on the release of 3.8 on November 1 2005. That's
> a lot more than 202 days ago.
>
> And yes, Greg was not dumb. His riposte was particularly apposite in
> the way it referenced the original post.
>
> Sadly humour rarely crosses language barriers and so I know only one
> joke which can be literally translated from French to English and still
> be funny and AFAIK it doesn't work in German or Spanish or Italian.
>
> Maybe you just didn't get the satire in Greg's reply....... Trust me -
> to an EFL person with any kind of clue (including the biblical
> reference) it was, at the very least, humourous.
>
> Chill out a bit, ok?

I love this list. By paying close attention I have realised it is possible to  
learn all sorts of things, not all OpenBSD related....

(Yes, it there was a joke in Greg's response, relating to the biblical 
reference, and also I know now the definitions of 'riposte' and 'apposite').

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